Mitch Daniels | Grads head into uncertain world with the ability to transform it

2:57 AM,
May 22, 2013

Mitch Daniels

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Mitch Daniels
| Special to The Courier-Journal

The following remarks are adapted from an address Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and current president of Purdue University, made to spring 2013 graduates of the school. - Editor

Purdue is known for the pioneers and adventurers it produces, those whose sense of wonder has led them to frontiers of new knowledge, across our planet and beyond it. But even a Nobel Laureate or an astronaut could not surpass by much the curiosity of a newly minted college graduate: I wonder what's next? Am I good enough? Most of all, in what kind of world will I live my adult life?